Nan, me and Barbara Pravi
I’ve been working with Hannah Maxwell since March 2022, shaping and structuring her new show Nan, Me and Barbara Pravi.
Maxwell’s autobiographical epic on care, crisis and Eurovision returns from its critically-acclaimed run at Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
★★★★★ "A masterclass in storytelling." (Time Out)
In 2021, Hannah Maxwell moved back to the Home Counties to care for her terminally ill grandfather. But this show isn’t about that. It’s about France’s Eurovision star Barbara Pravi, who’s just lovely.
In between cooking, cleaning and Countdown, Maxwell escapes into an intensifying fantasy of ballroom dances, heartfelt ballads, Parisian cafés, fluent French and definitely-not-creepy plots to engineer a meetcute with a random foreign celebrity. It’s La La Land meets Mission Impossible meets Hannah’s nan.
Combining spoken-word, animation and chanson francaise, NAN, ME & BARBARA PRAVI sits you down at the kitchen table to talk through grief and care, addiction and recovery, and hope and coping in unprecedented times. A “Delightful and clever” (★★★★ Scotsman) work of storytelling theatre from the acclaimed creator of I, AMDRAM.
★★★★★ “Watch it and its appeal is obvious.” (Financial Times)
Winner of the 2023 Summerhall Lustrum Award
Nominated for the BBC/Popcorn Group Award for New Writing
★★★★★ “An outstanding production, beautiful, funny and sad.” (Scottish Field)
★★★★★ “You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll be glad you are alive.” DarkChat
★★★★★ “Douze points across the board.” (Theatre Weekly)
★★★★ “Maxwell’s writing is electric, witty and charmingly delivered.” (The List)
